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Every Xbox Series X game with ray tracing support in 2025


Xbox Series X games that include ray tracing feature more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections, but not every game supports it

If you're new to ray tracing technology, here's what you need to know: it enables developers to implement realistic lighting, reflections, and shadows into video games, making virtual worlds look more believable and closer to what you’d expect to see in real life. Developers have to sacrifice resolution or frame rate if they want to implement ray tracing on consoles, which isn’t always a trade-off gamers want to make. It’s why the majority of games that support ray tracing on Xbox Series X tend to sacrifice resolution and frame rate to make up for the expensive performance hit.

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